Historical Contributions

scientific firsts

• First scientist to use brain imaging in cultural psychiatry.

• First scientist to use a pretest-posttest design with brain imaging (EEG) data.

• First to propose a Hebbian-inspired Science of Change for neuropsychology and its applications for clinical neuropsychology.

• First to identify individual change phenotypes.

• First to validate a fully naturalistic neuroscience experimental procedure.

• Among the first few scientists to study autism across cultures using comparative psychology methods.

• Coined the term “cultural neuropsychiatry”.